Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Swan, James Herbert (1897)

updated November 23, 2013.

LRCP; LRCS; MRCP; MRCS (Irel.) May 1888. Hong Kong nlt.1898.

HONG KONG nlt.1897. Acting Assistant Surgeon (vice John Bell, sick leave) April 9 – September 19, 1897. Seconded to AMD at the request of the Principal Medical Officer September 19, 1897. Deputy Health Officer of the Port April 14, 1898 [1]. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 7, 1898; re-registered May 7, 1907. Private practitioner 1898-1907+, partner, Dr. Gregory Paul Jordan, address 1: Princes' Building 1907; address 2: Alexander Building 1908. HKVDC, Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant November 1, 1899; Surgeon-Lieutenant 1901-05, resigned. JP (non-official) 1899-1907. Acting Health Officer of the Port (vice G.P. Jordan, absence on leave) March 6, 1901. Assistant Health Officer of the Port May 20, 1904. Residence, address 1: Hong Kong Hotel 1898; address 2: Gomes Villa, Kowloon 1907.

[All Swan's government appointments were on temporary basis due to shortage of government doctors at the time.]

[1] The tenure of the appointment was nothing but ordinary. The Government Notification, #169 reads, "His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint James Herbert Swan to be Deputy Health Officer of the Port, for so long as he continues in partnership with Dr. G.P. Jordan, or until further notice."

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Military Expenditure 1901-05. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 16, 1898, #169; May 7, 1898, #212; November 11, 1899, #602; December 16, 1899, #705; March 9, 1901, #126; June 2, 1902, #332; June 10, 1904, #491; July 7, 1905, #417; February 22, 1907, #127; May 10, 1907,  #335. The Principal Civil Medical Officer's Report for 1897.

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